BARNEY LEWIS / ANGEL INVESTOR

Backing obsessive founders building frontier technology.

I’m a Scottish angel investor and former founder, investing my own capital globally in foundational AI, compute, robotics, autonomy and defence.

Pitch Your Idea

Barney Lewis presenting at an artificial intelligence event.

Cheque

$25k–$100k+

Stage

Idea → Seed

Focus

Deep Tech

Portfolio

I back category-defining, important ideas. Selected investments shown below.

I back category-defining, important ideas.
Selected investments shown below.

Description

Air defence as a service

Stage

Seed

Backed By

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Company

Description

Stage

Backed By

Year

Impact Drones

Air defence as a service

Seed

2026

Stealth

Next-generation compute architecture

Seed

TBA

2026

Social Gravity

Permission infrastructure for human identity

Pre-seed

TBA

2026

Stealth

TBA

Pre-seed

TBA

2026

Stealth

AI-native real estate brokerage

Pre-seed

TBA

2026

CrayonLabs

Agentic engine powering autopilots

First Cheque

TBA

2025

Beyond investing: family, friends, health & fitness, music, DJing and sunsets.

Barney Lewis working at Dubai Founders HQ.

Building something consequential?

If you’re building something strategically significant in deep tech, I'd love to hear from you. I read every submission.

If you’re building something strategically significant in deep tech, I'd love to hear from you.

I read every submission.

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